Anyone living in the Sudbury area is well familiar with the jokes about the magnificent landscape that surrounds the city. Moonscape is probably the least unkind of the adjectives that is used to describe the area. It certainly did not help reduce the teasing very much when the Apollo astronauts trained for their lunar missions in the Sudbury Basin.
While it may not be politic to compare Sudbury to the lunar landscape, there is a lot more truth to this than commonly realized. The landscape just to the north and north west of Sudbury is the site of a massive impact that completely shattered the Earth's crust and was responsible for creating one of the richest mineralogical deposits in the world.
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